A British student has been gang raped in Thailand after moving there two weeks ago to become an English teacher. The 22-year-old was attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning by four Thai men.

Police said the men were driving around the southern provincial capital of Nakhon Sri Thammarat in a pick-up truck. They snatched their victim as she left a late-night restaurant popular for serving alcohol after-hours.

The young woman, from Scotland, was thought to have been taken to a nearby building where she was repeatedly raped.

The alleged scene of the crime: Police comb the second-floor balcony of the building in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, where a British student was found weeping

Destination: Thailand is popular with British tourists, particularly students, with thousands visiting every year